A REPLY.

Manawatu Herald, 2 June 1904, Page 3

A REPLY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HANAWATU HERALD. Sm, —In common justice we think that, as you have published a subleader referring to a matter which lay entirely between the committee o£ the Manawatu Rowing Club and ourselves, the other side of the case might with advantage be stated. * The fine referred to in your columns was imposed on us by the committee of the club for keeping two of the tslub’s boats out on April Ist lor If hours over the specified limit of twelve hours. We received a letter from the secretary of the Club notifying ua that a fine of £1 had been imposed upon us, and intimating that the fine was to bo paid within five days. Within a iceeh of receipt of this letter we were called up> m by the secretary, in a - second letter, to resign, as we had not complied with the request stated in his first letter. No doubt we committed an error of judgment in omitting to attend to this matter within the specified time. Had we thought the matter so urgent we should have attended to it at oooe. It would have been fairer had the secretary notified us that he had the ■authority of the committee to go to extremes if the matter were delayed. The fact of our inadvertently ommitting to attend to this matter gave the secretary the erroneous impression that we wilfully ignored his letter and refused to pay, as was stated so clearly in your columns. We emphatically state that such was not the case, and we feel strongl j that the sub-leader referred to has created a wrong impression concerning us. Our intention all along has been to settle the matter fully at the beginning of the month, and we talve exception to the statement contained in the subleader that we refused to meet the demands of the club, and we trust you will do us the justice of publishing this, and so remove the "Wrong impression created, We are, &c., Those referred to. Foxton, 2nd June, 1904.

|The offence for which our correspon- . Alents were fined was for keeping boats out over 12 hours, the 1 limit prescribed by the rules —the boats having been placed on the steamer and taken to Kapiti on the Ist April. The fine fixed by the rules is £l, but the amount imposed in the present case was only 4s each, and the defaulters were liable to, though not asked to pay, an additional fine of 10s each for using the boats for fishing. If any of the members in question were unable to raise the 4s within the five days it would have been a simple matter to apply to the secretary or the treasurer for an extension of time, which would undoubtedly have been allowed, we have no doubt. This, however, we understand, was not done. No notice whatever was taken of the committee’s application, and we certainly think the latter were justified in construing the defaulters’ action as a refusal to pay. We do not see how any wrong impression could be created by our sub-leader, other than what the action of the five members would itself create, and if the gentlemen in question think themselves aggrieved we have only to point out that it was quite within their power to prevent any unpleasantness by paying, or arranging the payment of the fine within the period fixed. — Ed. M. Herald.]

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